An update to a previous question here:

Thanks to all (especially u/caffarelli and u/prostakova) who gave me advice on staples in historical documents.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5qht40/what_is_the_appropriate_way_to_displaypreserve_a/

When the pages arrived it was clear the staple went through the writing and were done after-the-fact, so with a new set of electrical clippers I carefully removed the staples without any damage.

http://i.imgur.com/vC4tU6A.jpg

These are Gus Grissom's personal notes from 1964 (est) before Gemini 3, America's first 2-person spaceflight. The first page(s) are missing, so it starts "observed at work before - teamed together in jungle training x deke slayton actually picked [John] young x". Gemini 3 was originally to be flown by Alan Shepard and Tom Stafford, who were both replaced when Shepard was medically grounded, so the person referred to is almost certainly Stafford.

Also interesting to see "try for a full day" (G3 only flew 5hrs).

Thanks again to all. A different question than what usually shows up here, but the advice helped me greatly.

edit: typo

This by /u/PangeranDipanagara on the Hajj before modern travel

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• /u/the_chieftain_wg on "Was Israel almost defeated in the Yom Kippur war, as claimed in this article (The Economist) ?"

• /u/itsallfolklore on "The history of storytelling"

Hello there AskHistorians! Better suuuuper late than never - here are some of the popular and/or interesting questions from last week, which did not get an answer yet.

/u/Chalkface asked about the responsibilities of the mayor of Hamburg in he 15th century

/u/Anonpandafish would like to know Why did the Soviet Union outlaw Esperanto

/u/european_son wants to know how has the historiography of the French Invasion of Russia in 1812 changed since the release of War and Peace

Let’s look back at the theme of the week! What did we learn about trade?

/u/Tom_Roche and /u/Xenjael had a discussion about the Nuraghe culture

/u/Tiako talked about the claim that the the Emperor Trajan tried to take and hold a city on the Gulf coast in order to bypass the Parthians and establish a direct trade route between Rome and the East

/u/boothepixie talked about Henry the Navigator and his influence, or lack thereof, on the subsequent European exploration

This question took a while to answer but I was able to get to it today. People did not chant Queen songs at Tournaments, but A Knight's Tale's depiction of older armour being worn and also being 'out of fashion' is plausible.

Much thanks to /u/restricteddata who answered my question on How accurate is the TV trope of a lot of loose nukes hitting the black market after the Soviet Union fell?.